Mozilla is introducing two new privacy features for its VPN service, the company said Tuesday. Multi-Account Containers, the popular Firefox feature that helps keep your various online activities isolated from one another, is now available on the Mozilla VPN desktop app. And Mozilla VPN’s multi-hop feature that routes your VPN connection through two different servers …
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Google unveiled on Tuesday a new technology called Topics that’s designed to protect user privacy without putting an end to web advertising. The approach, which Google plans to start testing in coming weeks, replaces an earlier project that riled up privacy advocates. The Topics interface uses software built into Google’s Chrome browser to monitor your browsing behavior and assemble a list …
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No one wants to leak their private information as they browse the web. Chrome, Safari, Firefox and other popular browsers can help keep your data away from prying eyes. The caveat, however, is that securing those browsers means setting up a few security-minded extensions or tweaking privacy settings in preferences. There is one browser — with its own privacy-focused search …
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Editor’s note, Jan. 31, 2022: Since this article was last significantly updated, PriceBlink and Invisible Hand have been acquired by CNET’s parent company, Red Ventures. The dust and pixels from Black Friday and Cyber Monday have settled (though many of the best deals are still good). And we’re now in the thick of the holiday shopping season. Is your wallet …
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It’s almost that time of year. Following festive holiday dinners and gift exchanges, many switch focus to the new year and their 2022 goals. Although exercising, organizing that clutter room or even reading more may be on the list of resolutions, what about boosting your personal privacy and better protecting your data while searching the web? You can always try …
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Apple on Wednesday released a major new version of Swift Playgrounds, its iPad and Mac app designed to teach kids its Swift programming language, that now lets budding coders submit their projects to Apple’s app store. Swift Playgrounds introduces programming by letting coders control a character named Byte. Programmers learn basics like commands, variables, loops, and if-this-then-that operations. The code …
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Mozilla will end support for its Firefox Lockwise password management app this year, the company said in a post on its site. The app, currently available on iOS and Android, will no longer be available to install or reinstall starting Dec. 13. That means iOS version 1.8.1 and Android version 4.0.3 will be the app’s last releases. Users will still …
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Sure you’ve seen a 404 error code — remember Twitter’s infamous fail whale? — but what about a 503? Or a 400 or 301, for that matter? Is there anything you can do to fix it? Although these website errors are hopefully few and far between in your life, these online uh-ohs can throw you off your groove or worse, …
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More than 93% of US web searches are done with Google, but Windows 11 is set to Microsoft’s Bing search engine by default. If you prefer the results you get from Google’s search engine, it’s easy enough to make Google search the default. We’ll show you how. Windows 11 doesn’t let you set a default search engine systemwide across all …
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YouTube‘s almighty recommendations surfaced most of the videos that a crowdsourced army of volunteers said they regretted watching, according to a study released Wednesday by Mozilla based on “regret” reports from YouTube users. Of the videos people said they regretted, 71% were recommended by YouTube’s artificial intelligence. YouTube also recommended people watch videos that it later removed for breaking its …
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